Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 36: Part III.; February, 1905 But if I can add little that is new I Shall at least cherish the hope that my remarks may provoke a discussion more fruitful than themselves. There is also comfort in the reflection that thoughts in themselves old often acquire a fresh Significance when clad in some unfamiliar garb. At the outset I wish you to understand that the views put forward in this Paper are not always such as I myself should entertain, but they are to the best of my ability representative of those really prevailing throughout Australia. I use the word really as contra distinguished from seemingly, because it does appear to me that Australian public Opinion is not very faithfully, or, to put it more strictly, very accurately mirrored in the journals I have read here. For this no blame is to be attached to the Press. It can only pub lish what it receives, and it ought scarcely to be held accountable for the subtleties of the Antipodean wirepuller. But in this twentieth century the cable enters into the game of political casuistry: and from my local experience I have been able on occasions to discern purposes in its messages which were not exactly the ostensible ones. I, for my part, shall endeavour to steer a middle course. As a lawyer the judicial attitude has for me some anticipatory joys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.